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UN/GENEVA, 16 Feb.UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) call on Russia to begin an investigation into the death of Alexei Navalny, although a few hours earlier it was already announced that the Sustainable Investigation Committee for the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug was conducting a procedural review of all the circumstances of the incident.
““The Secretary-General expresses his condolences to Navalny’s family and calls for a full, credible and transparent investigation into the circumstances of Navalny’s reported death in custody,” UN Secretary-General Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said at a briefing. According to him, information about Navalny’s death “shocked” the Secretary General.
«We note that the State has a heightened responsibility to protect the lives of persons deprived of their liberty. If someone dies in the care of the State, the State is presumed to be responsible — a responsibility that can only be rebutted by an impartial, thorough and transparent investigation conducted «We urge the Russian authorities to ensure that such a credible investigation is conducted,» OHCHR spokeswoman Liz Throssell said in a statement.
According to the Yamal department of the Federal Penitentiary Service, on Friday after a walk, Navalny felt unwell, lost consciousness and died. According to preliminary data from an RT source, the convict suffered a blood clot, and the exact causes of death are being established. The SUSK for the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug organized a procedural investigation into this fact; all the circumstances of Navalny’s death will be established.
As they said at the Labytnang city hospital, the ambulance tried in vain for more than half an hour to resuscitate Navalny, and the journey from the station to the patient took the team about nine minutes. A pre-investigation investigation has been launched into the incident.
Navalny ended up in prison after his suspended sentence in the Yves Rocher case was replaced in 2021 with real imprisonment due to violations of the suspended sentence regime. After several trials under other criminal articles, including the creation of an extremist community, fraud and contempt of court (insulting the judge who tried him for slandering a war veteran), the final prison term increased to 19 years, and the prison regime — to special.
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